To be honest, anything with "Woodward" on the cover needs to be classified as fiction. But if the bastard really told the Chinese that, he deserves to be publicly executed. History shows a clear answer to deal with people like Milley, and a trial isn't one of them since the leftists own the courts.
This calls to mind an old idiom. I don't know who originally spoke these words, but damn:
You're in a room with an openly hostile enemy combatant, and a traitor to your cause. You have a pistol with two bullets. What do you do?
The correct answer: Shoot the traitor, twice. Then beat the enemy to death with the empty pistol. The openly hostile enemy combatant has some honor- he's willing to wear his opposition to your cause proudly. The traitor, duplicitous whoreson, deserves the absolute worst fate possible.
When you say beat the enemy to death, I assume you’re talking about the traitor and not the person originally described as the enemy?
I’d definitely prefer to be shot twice than beaten to death. So much so that I think the correct answer is actually to shoot the enemy twice and then beat the traitor to death
No, you shoot the traitor. Eliminate them as quickly and efficiently as possible, and make their fate widely and publicly known. Hell, they might be the reason you're in this room with only 2 bullets and a pistol and an enemy soldier. They get dead. If the enemy combatant defeats me and kills me, so be it.
The point is, there is no such thing as "too much" when it comes to the amount of force used to deal with traitors, and that they should be highly prioritized over the obvious enemy. Wars are almost always largely won by espionage and turncoats and compromised intelligence agencies (or the equivalent for their time, like a spymaster- the man that a King could trust to have eyes and ears everywhere, and report to him all relevant info). Sheer force is rarely the winner. Open battle rarely settles conflict.
There's always someone on the side that loses who started spreading dissent and demoralizing their own. "We can't stand against them, we should surrender and ask for mercy"- how many kingdoms ended on such notions throughout the ages? And that's a sort of "passive" treachery. Active treachery, where men that are sworn to you and your country are acting with the enemy to undermine your efforts to obtain victory, is a nation killer. Jews mastered this duplicitous bullshit, it's the only reason they survived the eons.
I believe the point isn't to deliver a painful death but instead a sure one; you can fight an enemy you know but the ones you don't know about are the most dangerous; their threat must be removed once they are discovered.
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